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Date:      Fri, 22 May 1998 12:22:05 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Malte Lance <malte@webmore.com>
To:        flygt@sr.se
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: Newbie question
Message-ID:  <XFMail.980522122205.malte@webmore.com>
In-Reply-To: <19980522091434.12772@sr.se>

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On 22-May-98 Gunnar Flygt wrote:
> What does the ´>/dev/null 2>&1' seen in many compilations actually do? I 
> understand that the output is redirected to null but the rest does what?

stdin -> filedescriptor 0
stdout -> filedescriptor 1
stderr -> filedescriptor 2

2> redirects stderr
2>&1 redirects stderr to filedescriptor 1 (which is redirected to /dev/null)

Malte
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> regards, Gunnar
> email: flygt@sr.se
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Date: 22-May-98
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